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- From: guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan)
- Subject: Stereo commercials, mono programming?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.065214.22765@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Sender: news@bradley.bradley.edu
- Organization: The Smelly Ditch
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 06:52:14 GMT
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- I just noticed an odd phenomenon. I have a Sony 20EXR25 (or
- something like that, a 27" tube with stereo and PIP) tv with a
- little red light that comes on when the tv thinks it is receiving
- a stereo broadcast.
- Occasionally I have seen the stereo light blink on when the signal
- for a mono station got too noisy (which seems odd to me, anyone want
- to comment on that?). However, today I started paying close attention
- to the light and noticed that while watching USA (which is mono over
- the cable system here), whenever a _local_ commercial would come on,
- the stereo light would come on too. Like I could give a shit if the
- commercials were in stereo... So what I want to know is what is the
- deal here? Is the `hard part' in converting the USA satellite stereo
- feed to a cable-ready stereo signal, or is the `hard part' just in
- putting out a stereo cable signal to begin with. Is the cable company
- being competent in not decoding the stereo satellite feed, or just
- cheap in that they won't pay for the required equipment?
- Also, our `community info' channel which is just a static display
- with bulletin board adverts, the time and the temp and a local radio
- station for audio is in stereo too. Couldn't the cable company make
- better use of the equipment to put out stereo USA or TNT or something
- like that?
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